[slurm-users] MCS plugin and SlurmDBD

[Nathan Harper]

Hi,

Ok, helpful to know that I haven't just misconfigured it!

On Thu, 3 May 2018 at 21:50, Matthieu Hautreux <matthieu.hautreux at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At the time the MCS logic was added to Slurm, the filtering of slurmdbd
> related information based on the MCS label was defered because it requires
> a new field (mcs_label) into the slurmdbd job/step records.
>
> The addition of this label in the main branch took times and only appears
> in 17.11 (see https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3321).
> Unfortunately, the modification to use this field to filter slurmdbd
> queries was not yet added.
>
> We will look at this addition in the following weeks and propose something
> for inclusion to SchedMD if/when we are happy with the results. For now,
> you should look at filtering at the user level those kind of queries using
> the PrivateData parameter of slurmdbd.conf.
>
> Regards,
> Matthieu
>
>
> 2018-05-03 18:44 GMT+02:00 Nathan Harper <nathan.harper at cfms.org.uk>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have just enabled the MCS plugin, with the below config:
>>
>> MCSPlugin=mcs/account
>> MCSParameters=enforced,privatedata
>>
>> This has happily hidden running jobs from users who don't have the right
>> MCS labels.   However, this is all undone by anything that queries
>> slurmdbd, so sreport/sacct etc will show all users+jobs etc.
>>
>> Is this expected behaviour?
>>
>> --
>> *Nathan Harper* // IT Systems Lead
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>
>

-- 
*Nathan Harper* // IT Systems Lead

<https://cfms.org.uk/news-events/events/2018/july/farnborough-international-airshow-2018/>

*e: *nathan.harper at cfms.org.uk   *t*: 0117 906 1104  *m*:  0787 551 0891
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CFMS Services Ltd // Bristol & Bath Science Park // Dirac Crescent // Emersons
Green // Bristol // BS16 7FR

CFMS Services Ltd is registered in England and Wales No 05742022 - a
subsidiary of CFMS Ltd
CFMS Services Ltd registered office // 43 Queens Square // Bristol // BS1
4QP
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